Yet you all consistently fight against measures to help the country no longer be reliant on such high levels of migration...

And call anyone who does a socialist or woketard...

Grappler Truth Teller wrote on May 18^th, 2025 at 7:32am:


Your reply doesn’t surprise me. When someone points out the long-term consequences of decades of policy decisions you championed, you retreat into name-calling and faux outrage.

Let’s be clear, immigration isn't occurring in a vacuum. It's a response to the economic and demographic conditions you helped create. For decades, you supported a free-market ideology that offshored our industries, dismantled local manufacturing, and turned public services into for-profit ventures. You cheered it on, thinking short-term gains meant long-term prosperity. But what we got was a hollowed-out economy, increasingly reliant on services and consumption, which, by its nature, demands constant population growth.

At the same time, your generation reaped the rewards of turning housing into a speculative asset. Negative gearing, capital gains discounts, first-home-buyer schemes that inflate prices, all while claiming to care about “the future.”

The result?

Young Australians can’t afford to start families, let alone large ones. Birth rates fall, and the only way to sustain the economy is through immigration.

And now, you want to scapegoat immigrants, especially if they aren't white, as though they’re the root of the problem, instead of a symptom of policies you voted for and continue to support.

That’s not just intellectually dishonest, it’s cowardly. You want all the benefits without any responsibility for the consequences.

You brought the ladder up behind you, and now you’re angry that people need a different way up.

Take some responsibility for the society you helped shape instead of blaming the outcomes on everyone else.

For decades, you supported a free-market ideology that offshored our industries, dismantled local manufacturing, and turned public services into for-profit ventures.

You are clearly becoming irrational. 

ProudKangaroo wrote on May 18^th, 2025 at 1:35pm:


It wasn't all that long ago they were cheering the libs pulling subsidies from the auto industry for one example, claiming that if they can't compete on their own they should close (when every other countrys car industry competes with govt help). Now they cry that manufacturing is dead

Grappler Truth Teller wrote on May 18^th, 2025 at 6:18pm:


YOU can't be that shocked to learn that you are the problem. We've been telling you for years

John Smith wrote on May 18^th, 2025 at 6:33pm:


You should probably look back to Keating for the beginning of this.

Hawke agreed with one author’s observation that most voters wanted immigration reduced and
that the parties had deliberately kept it out of public debate,
saying there had indeed been “an implicit pact between the major parties
to implement broad policies on immigration that they know
are not generally endorsed by the electorate” and
that “they have done this by keeping the subject off the political agenda”

Setanta wrote on May 18^th, 2025 at 7:33pm:


keating didn't change the NG and CGT laws

Setanta wrote on May 18^th, 2025 at 8:24pm:


No one suggested we close the economy from the rest of the world Set. Keating didn't remove all the industry subsidies, or rush to sign FTA's with everyone just so he could say he did. You can open up to the outside world without totally destroying all your own industry